Hospital appliance.



A. C. STEVENSON.

HOSPITAL APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 26. 1914.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

INVENTOR A, ATTORNEY ABRAHAMIG. s'rnvENsoN, or P I -I ILA fiELPI-IIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR or oNE- HALF TO ELEANOR ROSS STEVENSON AND ONE-HALF TO DANIEL W. HILDRETH, JR., BOTH :OIE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. V

I-IOSPITAL APPLIANCE,

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that I. ABRAHAM C. STEVEN- soN, a citizen of-the UnitedStatesof America, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improve merits in Hospital Appliances, of which the following is a true and exact description,

reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof. v

My'present invention consists in a bracket 7 or holder especially devised for attachment to a bed toserve as a support for the liquid reservoir employed'in giving saline and like injections to a patient resting on the bed.

The general object ofmy invention is to provide a sim le and effective device for the purpose specified," which may be detachably secured to the bed and is-well adapted to meet the ordinary conditions of hospital use.

For instance, provision must be made for' i adiusting the height of the reservoir and keeping it plumb when the bed is itself adjusted, for the proper feeding of the in e ction liquid depends u on the hydrostatic head at the point of discharge; The support for the reservoir must be strong and rigid for'each injection period frequently lasts for several hours during which the bed to which the device is attached may be moved or adiusted. and provisions must be made for maintaining the iniection liquid at the proper temperature. and the de ice is subject to other handling and possibility of engagement by the patient or attendants." The device moreover, must be capable of .being'cleaned easily, and should be so arranged as not to interfere inany wavv with the cleaning of the floor under the bed while the device is in use. v

The various features of novelty which characterize my invention are pointed out with particularity in the claim annexed to and forming a part of this specificat on. For abetter understanding of my invention,

7 however, reference should be had'to the accompanving drawings and descriptive mat- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

' 7 Application filed October 28, 1914. Serial N 0. 868,966..

3 is an elevation of one, and Fig. A is an elevation of the other of a pair of relatively adiustable parts of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation illustrating a connecting device which may be employed under certain conditions. I My improved holding appliance comprises a horizontal member A bifurcated at one end with thetwo branches A spread apart and adapted to be secured to the horizontal top flange of the usual angle bar side rails Y employed in metallic hospital beds. F or this reason each branch or bifurcation A is formed with a downward and backward turned portion A adapted to catch under the horizontal flange of the bed rail when the member A is mounted thereon. Set screws B threaded through the upper portions of the branches A are emploved to detachablv secure the member A in place.

At its free end the member A is formed with a cylindrical spindle portion A and a circumferential flange A between the portion A? and the bifurcation A A socket member C is formed with a socket receiving the portion A and witha flange or collar C adapted to fit against the flange A To permit the members A andC to be held togetherin different angular adjustments about the axis of the part A, the collar A is provided with a pin A which is entered in one or another of-a series of sockets C formed in the flange C The member G is formed with a threaded socket to receive a set screw 13 which impinges at its inner end against the extension A and thereby locks the member C against movement relative to the part A in a direction parallel to the length of the latter.

At its outer end the member C is formed with an open ended socket C receiving a post D which may be secured in different adjustments therein by means of the set screw B The socket C and consequently the post D are ordinarily vertically disposed. At its upper end the member D has a head E attached to it. As shown the head E is formed with four arms E having upturned end portions. In the upturned portions of an adjacent pair of arms E are mounted set screws B between which and the upturned portions of the remaining arms the object to-be supported may be clamped. As shown this object is the reservoir G. for the saline injection liquid, or rather a metallic cage in which the'vreservoir G is mounted; As

resting on the bed forrn'sapart.

The holding deviceshown is obviously ca pable of easy attachment to and release fromtheside railY, and the spreading apart of thebifurcations Alpermits the' device to be positively clamped'to the side rail at points separated from. one another by a consider- 4 frigidity.

able distance, thus insuring a very desirable The adjusting provisions disclosedpermit the reservoirs held thereby tobe adjustedjto oneend of the bedds raised or lowered rela- 1 the proper level andkept plumbpnotwithstandingthe fact that the position oi": the side rails are changed fromtime to time as tive to the other. i The adjusting provisions are of sucha-sunple and positive character moreover, that they can be easily made, and the parts positively secured in-their'n'ewadjustments by relatively unskilled nurses and attendants. I

The appliance is obviously easily cleaned V and does not interfere with the movementof the bed overthe floor or with the operation 1 o'f-cleaning the portion ofth'e floor under the bed. i

I Copies of this patent may l bebbt'aine'd f or fivecents eachQby addressing the v i- With the injection fluiclreservoir e positively held in a definiteposition-relative to the bedstead, the hosed-I may readily be r made of such lengthand so disposed that there is nodanger of'lthis hose becoming kink'ed and the flow of the injection liquid 1 4O thereby interrupted.

3 To enable the holding device shown in 1 Figs. -1"to 4' to be'supplied to a bed rail "of other than the u'sualangle barconstruction, 1

a separate connecting-adevice maybe'em- Witnesses:

This connecting have a fiangec'orresponding to the horizontal flange 'of'thefbed rail shown in Fig. 1 and may be provided with suitableprovisionsqwhereby V stance, asfshownin Fig, 5, the'connecting piece Z inay be-provided witha split collar adapted to bec'lai'nped, as byithe' bolts Z about ra tubularmetallic side r'ail employed .55 J1 I'claim as new and desire to" secure by' Leto V ters Patent, isz) r ,A device-for the purpose specified com-f prising a member bifurcated at onegena and 1 terminating at its other'e'nd in aspindle'porftion with'afflange surrounding the; spindlel portion at the inner end of the latter, the

branches of said bifurcated end beingfspaced v apart'andfformedeach with a back turned] portion adapted to take under the horizontal; j

top flange "a bed ngle "bar' side rail on i {which the said member may rest,'*a socket v member iormedwith a socket receiving said spindle portion and with" a flange jsurroundvings'aid socket, andformed; also with sec-5 ond socket transverse tothe' first; saidfl'anges having parts cooperati-ng'tohold saidsocket 7 .member and spindle portion in anyangular adjustment in which-theyinayi be assembled,

means for detachably securing 'saidfspindle" portion'in the first rnentioned'socket, a post i j received in said transverse-socketandad-- *justable. therein in -the' direction "of its. length; means'for'securing said-post in said socket in one or another "of its diflerent'ad' SQ justments, and aliquid reservoir supporting means mounted onthe vupper efnd of v saicl post.

"ARNOLD KAT-z,

Washington, D. C, p

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